The following is a list of notable machinima-related events in the year 2006. These include several new machinima productions, season finales, and the 2006 Machinima Festival.
Events
January 30 – Hugh Hancock announced his resignation as editor-in-chief of Machinima.com. March 20 – July 16 – The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences presented a machinima exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. June 20 – Jeff Pulver announced that Chris Burke's This Spartan Life video blog about network neutrality won the "Save the Net" Viral Ad Contest. June 21 – Pentagon officials testified to the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that a machinima video made using Electronic Arts' Battlefield 2 was terrorist propaganda. Georgia Institute of Technology assistant professor Ian Bogost and the video's creator disputed the claim. July 17 – The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences announced the 2006 Machinima Festival. November 1 – GameStop began to take preorders for Halo 3 and announced that the Legendary edition of the game will include content from Red vs. Blue and This Spartan Life. November 4 – November 5 – The 2006 Machinima Festival was held. November 26 – American football player Dallas Clark, a tight end for the Indianapolis Colts, complained about a commercial produced by Rooster Teeth Productions for Electronic Arts' video game Madden NFL 07. In the commercial, he is tackled by Philadelphia Eagles players. November 30 – Rooster Teeth Productions released a director's cut of the controversial advertisement involving Dallas Clark; in it, Clark plays and dominates every position.
Notable releases
February 9 – The first season of ILL Clan's Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will premiered. February 9 – Edgeworks Entertainment announced The Heretic, a prequel to The Codex. April 1 – Season 4 of Rooster Teeth Productions' Red vs. Blue ended with episode 77. April 26 – Strange Company released the first episode of BloodSpell. April 27 – Season 1 of The Strangerhood ended with episode 17. May 4 – Red vs. Blue Season Four and The Strangerhood Season One were released on DVD. May 6 – Video blog 5 for This Spartan Life, which concerns network neutrality, was released. June 16 – Rooster Teeth Productions announced its new mini-series Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind. August 29 – The first season of Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will ended with episode 10. September 4 – Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind ended with episode 5. September 28 – The second season of TrashTa1k with ILL Will began. September 30 – of Red vs. Blue began for website sponsors with episode 78. October 4 – "Make Love, Not Warcraft", an episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park, aired. As a result of cooperation with Blizzard Entertainment, the episode features segments of World of Warcraft machinima. December 8 – The last episode of Strange Company's BloodSpell, episode 14, was released.
Active series
BloodSpell (premiered 2006) Neverending Nights (premiered 2004) Red vs. Blue (premiered 2003) Red vs. Blue: Out of Mind (2006) This Spartan Life (premiered 2005) The Strangerhood (2004–2006) Tra5hTa1k with ILL Will (premiered 2006)